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There was a time, long ago, when BMW was getting a foothold in the United States with its boxy 2002 series – little Q-ships that looked fairly innocuous but went like stink and handled like the BMWs we’ve all come to know. (Q-ship is a World War II term that applies to a ship that
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The place for the well-heeled car buff to be in August is the Monterey Peninsula in Northern California — a week of car shows, auctions, classic car tours, culminating in the Pebble Beach concours on August 18. Here, then, is another in a series of whet-your-appetite previews of the auctions that will take place that
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Hard to believe that a Sixties-era tweed jacket with leather elbow patches might be worth as much as a house, but there have been stranger sales. At the end of July, according to this piece in Hemmings, the jacket Steve McQueen wore in “Bullitt,” the 1968 movie known around the world for its classic San
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Hydrogen fuel cells have long been seen as a potentially perfect way to power a car: They generate electricity and emit only water vapor. While a few cars have been tested, Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) is about ready to roll. The automaker that defied skeptics in the ’90s with its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid cars is
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Hydrogen fuel cells have long been seen as a potentially perfect way to power a car: They generate electricity and emit only water vapor. While a few cars have been tested, Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) is about ready to roll. The automaker that defied skeptics in the ’90s with its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid cars is […]
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I had thought about it and dismissed it, but it still left a nagging afterthought. The final tip-off came when my neighbor, Brian, saw the red five-door hatchback in my driveway and asked if it wasn’t the same car I had last week. For two weeks, it’s been a blur of red cars that, to
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If there’s any news attached to the Palo Alto Concours this year, it’s the fact that it’s been moved from a Stanford University field, where it had held sway for 38 years, to the San Mateo County Event Center in the city of San Mateo. The simple explanation is that Stanford wanted its field back.
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The old air-cooled Volkswagen Bug — or Beetle, if you prefer — was launched just over 76 years ago and many of them are still on the road. The company was founded by Ferdinand Porsche (name sound familiar?) in Germany in 1937 and since then and 2003, when production was shut down, more than 21
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Ford introduced its iconic Mustang brand in 1964, but the original concept car didn’t look too much like the finished product. The concept car, which was dubbed Mustang 1, debuted in 1962. It had quite a few technical and styling cues that were different from the model that rolled off the assembly line in 1964. […]
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